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More aggressive moves toward the hoop couldn't make up the difference, and the Lady Wolves lost twice on homecoming weekend. The Wrangell girls basketball team shot 61 percent from the line as a team, and scored 20 of their points on fouls, indicative of a more aggressive offensive press. The Lady Vikings answered from the field Friday – making only three trips to the free-throw line in 32 minutes – and claimed the win 42-28. The Lady Wolves would pull within three points near the end of the...
February 5, 1914: The Wrangell Sawmill started operations for the season this morning and it sounds good to hear the buzz of the saws, it stirs up a commotion and livens things considerable. The box factory will also start as soon as conditions are favorable. Practically the same crew they had last year is working. Manager Wilson looks forward to a busy and prosperous season, which, we trust, will be realized. The mill means a while lot to the town and from now on there will be more money in circulation, as the mill pay-roll is no mean...
The varsity Lady Wolves outlasted the Lady Glacier Bears twice over the weekend to put two chicken scratches in the win column. The girls team won by six points both Friday (31-25) and Saturday (30-24). It marks the first set of conference play wins on the season for the girls, and three wins overall, evening the conference record to 2-2 after losses to Craig and Metlakatla. The girls team also marked a win over Craig in Ketchikan for invitational tournament play. The team has gradually...
The Wrangell High School varsity boy’s basketball team dropped two games to Metlakatla last weekend. The Wolves would lead Friday night by four points at the half, before losing 49-29. A tied score at halftime Saturday would turn into a 45-29 loss for the Wolves. Either game came down to guard play, and the Wolves are still developing offensively, said assistant coach Jason Clark. “We’re still a work in progress with our offense,” he said. “We have a really good defense right now, we’re just trying to get those extra pieces in on our offense...
Impressive transitional defense, pulse-raising fourth-quarter play and crisp passing weren't enough for the Lady Wolves to overcome the Miss Chiefs. The Wrangell High School girls' basketball team lost two to the visiting Metlakatla squad last weekend. The Miss Chiefs took Friday night's game 46-27, and edged the Lady Wolves 40-20 in the Saturday night sequel. Head Coach Edna Abella-Nore sounded a little like an alarm clock, based on the number of times she shouted "Wake up!" from the sidelines...
The girls’ basketball team lost twice to the Lady Vikings this weekend in Petersburg. The Petersburg side edged Wrangell 49-36 Friday, then the Lady Vikings notched a 31-point win Saturday to make it a winless weekend for the Lady Wolves. “Friday night’s game was really good,” said head coach Edna Abella-Nore. “We had figured it out if we made every single layup that game, we would have won by a point.” Wrangell may have caught Petersburg by surprise Friday night, Abella-Nore said. “Petersburg just came out stronger (Saturday),...
Alumni from as far away as Denver descended on the Wrangell High School gym floor to take on the Lady Wolves in the annual alumni game Jan. 3. The event featured a half-court contest, a baked goods silent auction, and the game itself, in which a motley crew of alumni and quasi-alumni (head coach Edna Abella-Nore contributed critical passing and outside shooting at points, though she attended Kodiak High School) thrashed the varsity squad 60-16. Despite the fact that the game had nothing but...
The Chief Shakes House rededication was easily the biggest event of 2013 in Wrangell. However, the year was filled with events and news stories big and small. On the first edition of 2014, the Sentinel pauses to recollect the stories throughout the year. January An electrical fire damaged the fish tank at the Nolan Center, causing it to be removed. A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off of Craig Jan. 4, rattling windows and nerves in town. The quake caused no major damage in town, but...
The Wrangell girls’ basketball team racked up a single win and two losses in Ketchikan this weekend at the Clarke Cochrane Holiday Classic. “The tournament went well for a lot of my players,” said head coach Edna Abella-Nore. “For every girl except one, none of them had played at a big tournament before. There was a lot of nerves.” The tournament opened Friday with a lopsided 53-11 loss to Chugiak. The team scored a single point through two quarters then added eight more in the third, including a 3-pointer by Wrangell baller Kaydee Howell an...
The Wrangell High team brought three straight losses home from the Clarke Cochrane Invitational this weekend. Wolves fans can take solace in the fact that the team has shown improvement in critical areas, even if the scoreboard lists the smaller number on the Wolves' side, said head coach Ray Stokes. Competition at the tournament also involved larger schools, Stokes added. "We lost all three of our games, but it was really pretty good competition," he said. "We're young and inexperienced, and...
After leading by as many as five points in two games against the visiting Panthers this weekend, the high school boys basketball team marked a pair of single-digit losses. Craig varsity took the opener Friday night 53-50 in overtime on the back of a pair of three-point shots, one by senior Keyan Bird and the other by sophomore Bryar Backman. They repeated the feat a night later, beating the home team 44-40 in regulation. "We got out-rebounded terribly, especially tonight," said head coach Ray...
First-year girls basketball head coach Edna Abella-Nore has high expectations for the upcoming season unrelated to the team record. "My expectations for the season ... the biggest one is that every one of them work really hard," she said. "That's the most important thing. If they come to practice every day and work 110 percent and apply that not only in practice but also during games, I think it's going to be very successful." The uncertainty about where the Lady Wolves will stand at the end of...
When bachelor science teacher Monty Buness started working at Stikine Middle School in the fall of 1989, a British scientist had just invented the world wide web, but it wouldn't be widely available for four more years. When the former Alaska Principal of the Year – now happily married to former library aide Linda Buness – retires at the end of the 2013-14 school year, every student in the high school will have his or her own laptop computer, and likely own a cell phone or other mobile dev...
Five Wolves qualified outright for state, and a sixth is an alternate after the Southeast Region V tournament last weekend. Freshman Sig Decker, sophomores Roger Miller and Chet Armstrong, junior Jeffrey Rooney, Jr., and senior Devon Miller each reached fourth or higher – the qualification minimum for state – and will wrestle in the State tournament. Senior Alex Cano reached fifth, and will stand in if one of the higher wrestlers in his weight bracket becomes incapacitated. "It was a great tou...
The Lady Wolves came within a game and five points of the State tournament last weekend. In the fourth game of the set against Klawock, the Wrangell High volleyball team was only five points down. Unable to make up the deficit, the team eventually finished third, behind Klawock and Craig, who will head to State this weekend. Klawock beat the Lady Wolves twice over the course of the tournament, once to send them into the consolation bracket and a second time to seal the Lady Chieftan's second...
The varsity Lady Wolves beat both the junior varsity and alumni teams at a matchup Nov. 26. The games were part of an annual tradition used to give Wrangell residents a second look at their players – who would otherwise have only a single home meet – honor the team's four graduating seniors, and raise money to help supplement the high school's athletics budget. While that might mean the stakes for the game are relatively low, that doesn't mean either side in the main-event match up between the...
The Middle School basketball team concluded its six-week season in mid-November with a win at the Stikine Invitational in Craig. The invitational features teams from all over Southeast, and is held in Petersburg, Craig and Wrangell on a rotating basis. The Wolves this year featured two teams, an A team and a B team, and the B Wolves team seized the championship on the back of a single-point win over Craig to close out the tournament, said coach Dustin Johnson. "We went back and forth," he said....
A reduced Wrangell wrestling squad visited Juneau this weekend for the Pilot Invitational. Freshman Darren Shilts earned the highest place for the Wolves, wrestling his way back to third place in the 132-lb bracket. Senior Alex Cano wrestled his way to fourth place by beating Wrangell freshman Sam Armstrong before losing a close decision to Ketchikan’s Kadin Hallstron. Sophomore Chet Armstrong scored another fourth place for the Wolves in the 152-lb. bracket. Alissa Heller also secured a fifth place finish in the 98-lb bracket. Shilts lost h...
A number one seed for the Region V tournament is within the grasp of the Wrangell volleyball team after a weekend sweep in Haines. The Lady Wolves both benefited and suffered from foul weather. High seas and wind kept regional rivals Craig and Metlakatla from attending, but also barred the attendance of two of the volleyball team's starters and the varsity head coach. The meet led off with an exhibition match against Haines the first day, followed by an evening match up against Skagway. "There...
Wrangell High’s drama, debate and forensics team drew mixed results at the season’s lone home meet. Kyla Teat and Kaylauna Churchill placed third and delivered a command performance pantomime titled “Doctor’s Office,” the highest honor awarded to Wolves debaters over the course of the two-day event. Ben Florschutz earned another third place in extemporaneous commentary, a category in which presenters have a limited amount of time to research and present on a topic. Florschutz also placed fifth in the category of original oratory, during wh...
The girls volleyball team was eager to size up the regional competition going into an invitational at Craig this weekend. Craig, Klawock and Wrangell sit atop the rankings for the Region V conference at first, second and third respectively. The invitational represented one last chance to test out the competition going into this weekend’s seeding tournament in Haines, according to head coach Jessica Whitaker. “It was kind of just pick-up games to get a look at each other,” she said. “Especially right before the seeding tournament, it’s ni...
A bruised and somewhat diminished Wolves team still found ways to shine at the Craig Invitational Nov. 8 and 9. The key word for the Wolves was experience, said head coach Jeffery Rooney. The Craig Invitational’s structure of round-robin wrestling Nov. 8 and tournament wrestling Nov. 9 allowed each of the Wolves to boost their mat time considerably, Rooney added. “We combined a few classes, moved a few kids around all over there, a lot of good wrestling,” he said. “Everybody walked out of the tournament there with five, six, seven matches...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 27, 1913: The Bazaar held by the ladies of the local Catholic Church on Thursday evening at the Redman's Hall was a great success. The attractions were new and afforded great amusement for those who desired to try their luck. The fish pond presided over by Mrs. H.L. Campbell and Miss Schefstad filled the wants of both young and old. Sol LaBounty was there when it came to the game of throwing, “three balls for 10 cents, soak him and you get half a dollar.” Sol did a land office bus...
